TEXT

Al-Durr (al-Luʾluʾ) al-manthūr fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-dastūr

Title (arabic)

الدرّ [اللؤلؤ] المنثور في العمل بربع الدستور

Title (translit)

Al-Durr (al-Luʾluʾ) al-manthūr fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-dastūr

Alias

Al-Thalāthat al-abwāb min ākhir al-risāla al-sittīniyya
al-Zahr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-madhkūr
الدر المنثور في العمل بربع الدستور

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]

Notes

A work in 60 chapters on the sine quadrant, also dealing with sundials; for table of contents, see Ahlwardt, no. 5840.

ismi_id

124583

Manuscript Witnesses

19 witnesses:

Literature References

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 66 (C47), 4.5.6

Worrell, W., and W. C. Rufus. 1944. “Maridini’s Introduction to the Use of the Quadrant”. Scripta Mathematica 10: 170-80.

English translation of the introduction.

Wiedemann, Eilhard. 1909. “Beiträge Zur Geschichte Der Naturwissenschaften XVIII”. Sitzungsberichte Der Physikalisch-Medicinischen Societät in Erlangen 41: 26-78.

Pp. 76-78. Description of chs. 57-59.

Ahlwardt, Wilhelm. Verzeichnis Der Arabischen Handschriften. Handschriften-Verzeichnisse Der Königlichen Bibliothek Zu Berlin. 10 vol. Hildesheim; New York: Georg Olms.

Vol. 5, pp. 253-54 (no. 5840). Provides a full table of contents.